How happy to call oneself a Turk : provincial newspapers and the negotiation of a Muslim national identity
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How happy to call oneself a Turk : provincial newspapers and the negotiation of a Muslim national identity
(Modern Middle East series, no. 26)
University of Texas Press, 2011
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Description
The modern nation-state of Turkey was established in 1923, but when and how did its citizens begin to identify themselves as Turks? Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, Turkey's founding president, is almost universally credited with creating a Turkish national identity through his revolutionary program to "secularize" the former heartland of the Ottoman Empire. Yet, despite Turkey's status as the lone secular state in the Muslim Middle East, religion remains a powerful force in Turkish society, and the country today is governed by a democratically elected political party with a distinctly religious (Islamist) orientation. In this history, Gavin D. Brockett takes a fresh look at the formation of Turkish national identity, focusing on the relationship between Islam and nationalism and the process through which a "religious national identity" emerged. Challenging the orthodoxy that Ataturk and the political elite imposed a sense of national identity from the top down, Brockett examines the social and political debates in provincial newspapers from around the country.
He shows that the unprecedented expansion of print media in Turkey between 1945 and 1954, which followed the end of strict, single-party authoritarian government, created a forum in which ordinary people could inject popular religious identities into the new Turkish nationalism. Brockett makes a convincing case that it was this fruitful negotiation between secular nationalism and Islam-rather than the imposition of secularism alone-that created the modern Turkish national identity.
Table of Contents
List of Illustrations Preface Acknowledgments Introduction Chapter 1. Imagining the Secular Nation: Mustafa Kemal and the Creation of Modern Turkey Chapter 2. Narrating the Nation: Print Culture and the Nationalist Historical Narrative Chapter 3. Provincial Newspapers and the Emergence of a National Print Culture Chapter 4. Religious Print Media and the National Print Culture Chapter 5. Muslim Turks against Russian Communists: The Turkish Nation in the Emerging Cold War World Chapter 6. Mustafa Kemal Ataturk and Mehmed the Conqueror: Negotiating a National Historical Narrative Chapter 7. Religious Reactionaries or Muslim Turks?: Print Culture and the Negotiation of National Identity Conclusion. A Muslim National Identity in Modern Turkey Notes Bibliography Index
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